Manju (MAHN-jew) are Japanese dough buns — often sweet — made from pounded rice flour dough and flavored fillings. In Japanese culture, a box of manju is what you'd take to someone's house on ...

Ingredients For the Dough: 2 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour; 2 tablespoons sugar; ½ teaspoon salt; 3 sticks (1½ cups) cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes ...

Gunma specialty yaki manju gets new spin as baumkuchen By MAKI HOSHII/ Staff Writer. July 16 ... The new product is made by mixing baumkuchen dough with red miso paste before baking.

Manju are traditional Japanese dough buns, often filled with sweet bean paste, that are best eaten fresh. A Seattle native recently opened a manju bakery to replace one he remembers fondly from ...